Word: skies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Above them rode farther-roving P47 missions to dive-bomb and strafe every moving truck, self-propelled gun or railroad train fof many miles beyond, while higher still was the steady rumble of the great silver Fortresses in the topmost sky, purring distantly on to knock out the rearmost reinforcement areas, supply points and marshaling yards...
Bombs on a Bridge. Now the target was the sensitive Ryukyus, the 55-island bridge linking Formosa to Japan's main islands. From the carriers of Task Force 58 Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher hurled a Jap-estimated 600 planes at these islands. They roared out of the sky in the early morning and hammered all through the day at six of the islands...
...slow its speedy passage on Allied wings, in the fleets of thousands of bombers that could now take up even direct tactical support jobs for the Russians. In the multi-miled echelons of aircraft the Germans read an unmistakable sign: the fifth front had been joined in the sky...
These Russians looked about them at Germany. Wrote one Red Army correspondent: "The sky is the same. The earth is the same. There are the same lakes and swamps all cut with dykes. But morally this place gives our men a huge, incomparable satisfaction understandable only to a Soviet...
...paratroopers jumped in ten-man teams, one at a time, for almost two hours. Most came down on "Topside," the western plateau of the fortress islet, but some were carried by the wind over the cliffs into South Channel, where PT boats scurried to pick them up. The sky troopers took most of Corregidor's remaining guns from the rear...